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Letters Patent No. 87,964, dated Ma/rch 16, 1869..V

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINE FOR MAKING CORDAG-E.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom 'it 'may con-cem Be it known that I, IsAAo E. PALMER, of Hackensack, in the county of Bergen, and State of New Jersey, h ave invented a new and useful Improvement in Machinery for the Manufacture of Twist and Cordage, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, and in which- Figure l represents a plan of a laying-top to a cordagel-machine, having my improvement applied to it; an

Figure 2, a sectional elevation thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. y

This, my invention, consists in anovel application o r arrangement of rollers to equalize the delivery of strands, or yarns, to the laying-device of a cordingmachine, and whereby the strands, however unequal may be their tension in. their passage from the twisting-spindles, may have a perfectly uniform tension at the point of delivery to the laying-device, and the same may be delivered to the latter in a perfectly uniform manner, so that, when they are formed into a rope, or cord, such rope, or cord, will have a perfectly uniform appearance on all sides, as well as having all its strands equally capable of resisting the strain to which the rope, or cord may be subjected.

Referring to the accompanying drawing- A represents the laying-top of a rope, or cordage machine.'

More or less immediately beneath or in rear of the head B of the laying-top, are rollers O O, made of or covered with rubber cloth, or other suitable material. These should be so set, or arranged, and their peripheres, or surfaces of such a character, as that, in thel passage of the strands through the laying-top to the take-up, they will either pinch or otherwise hold nl 4said rollers; or any other suitable means of adjustment may be employed to regulate the degree of hold which the rollers exert upon the strands, so as to equalize their delivery.

To illustrate this, it will be observed that, supposing the strands to be nnequally'pulled, or drawn upon by the take-up, the strand which has the greatest draught upon it will be the driver to, as it were, or set in motion the rollers C C, that, in their hold or friction on the other strands, will thus be made to project or feed the latter throughthem at the same velocity as the strand havingpthe greatest pull on it, and thus the delivery ofthe several strands, or yarns, either to the laying or twisting-device, is equalized.

What is here claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-` The rollers C C, supported on adjustable swinging jaws E E, in combination with the top A and head B,

all constructed and arranged substantially as shown and described.

IsAAo E. PALMER. Witnesses HENRY T. BROWN, A. LE CLERC. 

